Sydney We woke to rain and an in-coming front, so we were drowned rats when we walked into the house that officed Immigrant Women’s Speak-out Association (IWSA) in the northwest suburbs. Jane Corpuz-Brock, another Filipino woman, interestingly, directed the program focusing on working to move women through the system to citizenship and …
Category: International
Get Up and Go!
Sydney We looked at the glass both half-empty and half-full as we slogged around the unseasonable warm day in Sydney to our appointed rounds. First a train trip to the southwest suburb (incidentally neighborhoods here are called suburbs, so you never really know if you are in the city or out) of Bankston. …
Greeen Bans
Sydney Amanda Tattersall, a well-known and regarded union and community organizer and researcher now a deputy assistant secretary of Unions New South Wales, opened up the official meetings of the Organizers’ Forum with a broad overview presentation of how market, government, and civil society forces had interacted over the last 200 years of Australian …